The treasury of this monastery contains pearls and precious stones of a value which we hesitate to name in figures, though both our eyes and ears bore witness to the aggregate as exhibited to us.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Properly to examine the treasury alone would require many days.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The fixing of a legal minimum rate of wages is a task which it is beyond the State's power to accomplish, except by paying up the minimum out of its own funds; for, though the law fixed a minimum to-morrow, it could not compel employers to engage workmen at that minimum; and if employers found it unprofitable to do so, the only effect of the legislation would be to throw numbers of men out of work, and make their maintenance at the legal minimum an obligation of the public treasury.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae